Patients under treatment at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on Saturday
Rajkot/Ahmedabad: Anxiety and distress among Covid-19 patients have reached a disturbing level with some going to the extreme of claiming their own lives.
Two such cases were reported on Saturday, one from Gondal in Rajkot where a man slit his throat and another from Ahmedabad where the infected patient jumped to death from 5th floor of the hospital building.
Jayanti Chotangiya (60) from Gondal, who was infected with coronavirus for around a week, killed himself at a dargah on Saturday. A resident of Vora Kotda road in Gondal, Chotangiya was ill for around a week and his sons had even brought an oxygen cylinder after he tested positive for Covid-19. But as his condition was not improving, the family was planning to admit him to Rajkot Civil Hospital on Saturday.